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Info for Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen 2 - Die Walküre (Remaster)

Wagner interpretations with Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker have a quality all of their own. Critics always admired the ability of the musicians to bring out not only Wagner’s luscious sound, but also all the subtleties of the score. Moreover, Karajan was able to rally the singers to successfully convey the lyrical tenderness of Wagner’s heroes despite their vocal powers.
Herbert von Karajan was one of the most highly regarded Wagner conductors of his age, celebrated for a lyrical, fiery and contrapuntally clear approach to the music which owed more to the example of conductors such as Toscanini and Clemens Krauss than it did to the old “German” school of Wagner conducting. Karajan once remarked: “When we did the Ring people said it was ‘chamber music’, but I would deny that. It was the full Wagner orchestra, with full sonority but played with real subtlety and the full range of dynamics.”
Karajan conducted four complete Ring cycles during his career: in Aachen in 1937, at the 1951 Bayreuth Festival, in Vienna in 1959, and at his own newly founded Salzburg Easter Festival between 1967 and 1970. In 1963 stage designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen had told him: “Salzburg has a great Wagner theatre the Grosses Festspielhaus. It is too big for Mozart but for Wagner it would be wonderful.” The orchestra engaged by Karajan was the Berliner Philharmoniker, the ensemble he considered best suited to the realisation of his musical vision.
Régine Crespin (Brünnhilde)Christa Ludwig (Fricka)Lieselotte Rebmann (Gerhilde)Cvetka Ahlin (Grimgerde)Gerda Scheyrer (Helmwige)Martti Talvela (Hunding)Carlotta Ordassy (Ortlinde)Helga Jenckel (Rossweisse)Lilo Brockhaus (Schwertleite)Gundula Janowitz (Sieglinde)Jon Vickers (Siegmund)Barbro Ericson (Siegrune)Ingrid Steger (Waltraute)Thomas Stewart (Wotan)
Berliner PhilharmonikerHerbert von Karajan, conductor
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